Wild Card Weekend - Giants vs Bucs

• Just for yucks, let's call them the Schmucks.
• This is where Brandon Jacobs is from. Nice short piece on Countdown this morning about him. Apparently he was wearing 3-6 month old clothes at birth, and rolled over the day he was born. Screw Tiki, I prefer Brandon.
• Nice weather in FLA today. Eli's happy, he says.
• Anthony Mix had a great play yesterday for the Redskins. I know it's not a big deal but in Mix looked good in the pre-season and NY can use anything they can get now.
  
• No O'Hara. Lots of people say that's a problem but we'll see.
• See, first throw is to the new TE Kevin Boss. If the Giants win, look for the headling "Meet the New Boss." You heard it here first.
• Jacobs tries to run outside, which isn't his strength. Not good. Not sure what else there was to do but I bet he gets at least two yards rather than losing two, leading to a low toss to David Tyree that he drops. Hey, nice work. Feh.
• Earnest Graham? EARNEST GRAHAM?!?!? Who cares? Joe Schmuck is talking about him like he was LT2. SCREW HIM.
• Galloway was open wider than Lindsay Lohan on that play.

• Now the defense is stepping up a bit. 3rd and 15, we like that.
• Enough with the debate about whether or not the Giants should have played their starters last year. It's over. She has your t-shirt, she sold your CDs on ebay. Move on.
  
• Nice blocking by the Schmucks to free Earnest Graham for a good run. Giants have to be insanely aggressive on defense, the offense is good but the play calling isn't. I don't want to see Graham out rush Jacobs today. I DO NOT WANT TO SEE THAT.
• Tom Coughlin - Are you a sucker? Or a sucker BUTT?
• Oh HO. Not good enough, Earnest Graham. Where's your praise now, Joe Schmuck? I smell anti-Giant bias from Aiky-Breaky Troy and Joe Buck Schmuck.
  
• Dammit. The only thing worse than a Giant loss would be a Giant loss at the hands of Earnest Graham. Because then Joe Schmuck would be right. Which is a sign of the apocalypse, or at least a sign that Joe will be more annoying, if such a thing is possible. Touchdown. Tampa Bay. Earnest Graham.
  
• If BJ isn't getting it done, try Bradshaw. It's called "change of pace." Perhaps the Giants coaches have heard of it.
• Montay Kiffin may go work for his son Lane at the Jokeland Raiders.
• Hey! Penalty against the Schmucks! Whoo-hoo! Let's see some capitalizing on that, New York.
• Eli doesn't have a great group of WRs but it's not like he has nobody to throw to. Bucs pass rush is looking like the Giants-fast and dangerous.
• That should've been a sack but it didn't matter much since Jeffy G threw the ball low leading to a punt. Good field position for New York, let's see them do something this time. It's been 3 and out each time for them so far.
• Somebody on the Giants - Gilbride, Eli, Coughy - is anti-dink and dunk. Short passes are suddenly working for them, which makes sense if you look at the Bucs defensive stats: #2 overall defense, #17 against the run. So it's not a lot of yards, but they can be beaten. Let Jacobs keep squeezing out a yard or two at a time up the middle so Tampa stuffs the box, then Eli can hit whoever is nearby. Of course, if nobody can catch the fucking ball it won't matter.
  
• Steve Smith is no good. Time to cut him. Too many dropped balls. Either teach him how to play or accept that he stinks and let him out.
  
• There's a stat: -2 total yards for NY in the 1st quarter.
• Toomer woke up. Don't ask him to be Joey Galloway just ask him to get open in the short field.
  
• Hey! Nice play by Eli and Jacobs! Actual clever football.
  
• SACKED! If you can plant Garcia like an orange tree, you take away a big part of his game: mobility.
• Bottom line: this Bucs' team isn't that good. IMO they seem to win games with Garcia throwing for under 200 yards, with the defense keeping the score low. Can't do that forever.
  
• Gwen Stefani is way hot.
• Once again, we insult Giant players, and they play better. STEVE SMITH! NICE CATCH! FUCK YOU!
• JACOBS!!!!! OK, him we don't insult. I might be the guy's biggest fan. It's weird how little credit he seems to get. 2nd touchdown and it's only the first half. Good blocking + enormous running back = points for the Giants.
  
• I don't think Tampa has great offensive weapons either, but they seem to have a better offensive scheme. Alstott, Askew, Graham, these aren't immortal names but they get open and that makes a difference, especially with a mobile QB like Garcia. Of course, even if they complete the short passes, it doesn't matter as long as the Giant defense swarms the receiver as soon as they make the catch.
  
• Good catch by Hilliard, but was it enough for a 1st? Let's see.... Yes. Yes it is.
• New York stops them but doesn't bother trying for more points before the half, which hopefully won't be a mistake.